F' "l,tu,""J" ; . . f ..ML, jjly WIS I MSCMIL B. P. SOHWEIER, the ooisnrunoi-xsz unoi-its ra zztoxoqcext or the laws. Editor and Proprietor. .1 VOL. XL. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1SS6. NO. 45. Uad I But Known. BJ I but known that nothing U notions from rising until rising of tho un, Xuat full-Hedged ironls fly cfl" beyond our reach. Hat not deed brought forth to life dies ever, I wou'.d bare measured oat and weighed my speech: bear good deeds bad been my sole en (1 avor. Hail I but known. Had I but known bow swiftly speed away Xh living hours that make the living day. Tbat 'tis above delay's so dangerous slough (s bung the luring wis-light of to-morrow, I would have seized time's evanescent . o! I woni-l be spared this unavailing soirow, Had I but known! BiA I but known to dread the dreadful lire IT.it lay in ambush at my heart's desire, Vfcerefrom it sprang and smote my naitrd band ami leii a mark forever to remain, I ou:d not bear the fire's ignoble brand; I won;.i have weighed the pleasure with the pain Had I bnt known! Had I but known we never can repeat Lite's spring-time freshness or its summer heat, Nor gathered second harvest from life's fieid, Kor aced winter change to youthful spring. To me life's flowers their honey all wmild yield: I would no: feel one wasted moment's sti rig. Had I but known! annus potter's fiancee. it was exceedingly hot la the little jarlorof the country inn where Edmund Fenwick lay tossing on the horsehair sofa, inadequately supported by pillows the very picture of weariness and misery. He had come down on a fishing expe i:t!on with a tew select companions, mil, as ill-ltck would have it, he aal met w ith an accident jumping out of the dog-cart, and had broken his leg the second day after his arrival. ''Just come up from the station, sir. EigLteen-pence to jay; and sixpence for tie boy." It was the current number of the Brickbury Chronicle.. Septimus Totter was a clerk in i large house of business in the city. The exact nature of the business trans actions of the lirm by which he was employed it would be hard to describe, but principally it had to do with hides and tallow. Septimus was, conse quently, engaged in avocations of a commercial character which bore directly on this subject. So far, he was in the same position as scores of young men in the city; but, in one particular, be differed from his companions he was thoroughly ashamed of his work. Indeed, he had kept hides and tallow a profound secret for z considerable length of time; and even his most intimate friends, the Windles who lived at Brickbury, in the same street as himself even Emily Windle, whom he admired, and who was not unfavor ably disposed to his advances, liad never had an Inkling of the truth till it came, out one day by accident. Then Sam Windle had very naturally made a few jokes at the excuse of his friend, and these jokes, as often happens, had not been appreciated. The fact wss, that Septimus, who was only gifted with very ordinary capacities, firmly believed that his avocation was Art, and that he was a misappreciated genius. Ue had been given a fair start in life by a bachelor uncle; the firm treated him well; he had a rising salary, and was considered by his friends to be a most fortunate young man. Nevertheless, he was not satis fied. Septimuslounged into a reading-room to which he subscribed. It was a dingy, shabby place, with a torn carpet and "a dusty velvet sofa. More than once he thought of Emily's tearful gaze of the cosy drawing-room, and the happy evenings he had spent there drinking tea out of gold-and-white-cnps; ornamented with butterfly bandies, w hich he had himself presented to Mr. and Mrs. Windle on the twenty fifth anniversary of their wedding day. No, Le would stay where he was, and show his spirit as a man of character. So he bat down to a table with a deter mined air, and dragged a paper toward him. It was the Brickbury Chronicle. A corner of this select publication was devoted to advertisements, and as Sep timus, looked down the column, a pathetic appeal met his eye: "An elderly widower, no longer handsome, engaged in the ham and sausage busi ness, desires to correspond with a young and beautiful lady possessing "1,500 who would meet him at the hymeneal alter." Septimus had no originality, but who quicker to seize an idea when it was once put berorehim in black and white. He read, and at the same moment resolved that he also would confide an advertisement to the columns of this excellent journal. Should an elderly a plain pork butcher meet with success, and he not? farther down the list he saw touching appeals from loving ladies, who wished to meetwith eligible husbands. Had he ever been disdain ful towards the fair sex? Ah, well, Emily pshaw! She was a simple girl who could not appreciate his higher as pirations; well enough, doubtless, but too uncultivated for him. lie had already paved the way, he would break off that unfortunate affair on the spot, and hope for a better future. lie sat up until 2 o'clock that morning, wri ting and rewriting his advertisements, tearin? up sheet upon sheet of rose-colored paper in his endeavors after per fection. At last he was satisfied, and the masterpiece read: "A young gentleman, whose morning hours are devoted to the pursuit of commerce" so he got out of the hide and tallow difficulty "wishes to cor respond with a maiden of great person al attractions, his own being not to be despised, with a view to matrimony. His prospects are good; he stands five feet eight In his boots; his eyes are blue and his hair auburn. His great de3ire is to meet with a partner who has sim ilar tastes, as his are refined to a high degree. Fhotos could be exchanged and returned If not approved. Adr dress: Rupert, cara of the editor of the Brickbury Chronicle." On the evening of the following Sat urday, two letters lay on the table. Breathless win agitation, he tore one of them open; it was a blotted and ill expressed note from a young lady in a hairdresser's shop. He threw it indignantly on one side; what had he and she in common? The second letter was written on lilac paper, the envelope sealed with a seal bearing the impress of a Cupid. The letter iuell was neatly written in a clear, firm, running hand. "We cannot uo uoiter man give it word Tor word: 'DEAB, AND n A t t a v--p c,. r fo.1 . as I read your thrilling lines, that aiuuicu DkJUlb (.let me not be ashamed to own it), for miicu my uean nas long yearned I Gladly ah, gladly would I enter into correspondence with such a one as Rupert, but, alas! I am an orphan maid, and the world's riches are not for me. You would spurn the poor girl who must gain her humble crust by her own exertions. Yet, perhaps, your noble nature might not turn from the despised companion. Did I but know! My dearest aspirations are to be elegant; to cultivate my mind to a high pitch under youf tuition would leave nothing wanting to gratify yours dare she sign herself? "Affectionately and humbly. ".Rosalinda St. Claire. "I enclose my photo. I am a bru nette, with flashing yet melancholy dark eyes. Ere sorrow met my path, I was not considered unlovely. Your answer, should you deign to send me one, will be forwarded 10 me by a friend. Till then, farewell! Address, R., Postoffice, Ureat St. Paul's street. E. U." The weeks went on; his holidays were at hand. He would fain have visited his Rosalinda at her home in Surrey, bnt she besought him not to come; he should not first look upon her in the halls of slavery. Her Rupert must wait till fate smiled urxn their path, and she enclosed a little poem on the subject which made him happy for days. He sent her a ring two golden hands clasped together and he wrote her long letters every day, whieh she answered at first once a week, and then, once a fortnight. At length there came a day when be had not heard for a whole month. He was frantic with vexation; some of his friends had begun to talk, and tease him about his new Came; should he lose her now, just as be was about to have his salary raised? He could not brook the thought. In despair he wrote a few hurried lines, begging to be allowed to see her, bemoaning her long silence. Life without his Rosalinda was in supportable to him, etc. In answer to this appeal he received a short epistle In a shaky handwriting. Rosalinda had been ill; she had parted with her employer, and had gone to be the companion of a maiden lady of wealth in Northshire. It was a long journey from London; she dared not invite her Rupert to the house that was her temtKJiary home. If better, she would write again next week. Adieu, and again adieu! But she did not write. Days went by, and at last, oue foggy morning toward the end of November, Septimus received a communication from a stranger, a gentleman who signed him self "Thomas Gawkroger." His worst fears were realized. The gentle man wrote that it was his p;inful duty to inform Mr. Potter that Miss Rosa linda St. Clair was sufferfcig from so severe an attack of Illness that the doctors declared that there was no hope for her ultimate recovery. As Mr. Potter and the young lady had never met, the writer hoped that time would soften the blow and reconcile Mr. Pot ter to the inevitable. The ring and other trinkets would be forwarded to-morrow per rail. The postmark on the cover was CharlhlU. "Not so will I be bafflad!" cried Sep timus." Does this impertinent stranger think to tear two loving heart3 asun der!" And then descending from the heroics, he confided to an intimate friend his intention of checkmating old Gawkroger in the long run. The two young men laid their heads together, and between them hit oa the following plan: Septimus was to tell the firm that a relation of his was alarmingly ill in Northshire, and to beg for a few days' holiday. He was not to answer Mr. Thomas Gawkroger's letter (to write to Rosalinda on a bed of sick ness would be worse than useless), but ti take a ticket to CharlhlU and burst upon the conspirators like a bombshell, "Miss St. Claire?" he inquired of a buxom, high-colored woman-servant, "I am her intimate friend. How is she? Is she better?" "Be? pardon," sail the servant. "Miss St. Claire the lady who Is so dangerously ill!" "There's none sick in th' bouse now," said the woman stolidly: "but they've got th' whooping-cough down the lane." "No, no," exclaimed Septimus, ar ranging his fur collar. Ue could see in a class In the hall how well he looked. "Tnis is Miss Dynoch's house, is it not?" "Aye; but she's at hoam." "Well, then, I have come to see the lady who is companioa to Miss Dynoch. "I dunno what's to do." said the servant, eyeing him suspiciously; "but the mistress is within. Will ye give a name?" Strange that they are all in league with Gawkroger," said Septimus, to himself, as he handed his card to this alarming personage. It was a very neat, glazed card, which he had lately had printed. ' The servant left him standing in the hall, but returned almost immediately to say, would he walk in. Hat in hand, Septimus entered anil found himself iu a handsome drawing room, face to face with a pnm, elderly lady, with a small terrier yelping at his heeli The lady had a gold eye-glass in her hand, which she held close to the card, while she threw her head back wards after the fashion of people of weak sight. Her gown was of rustling silk, her presence full of dignity; yet indica tions of feminine coquetry were not wanting in the arrangement of the lace tippet on her shoulders and the rose buds that dangled from her cap. The carpet was soft and velvety. Septimus glanced at his muddy boots with dismay. He would willingly have made a more splendid entrance intq the halls of slavery. "Miss Dynoch, I believe?" he said, with his best bow. "Yes that is my name. Terhaps you will be so good as to inform nieto what cause lam indebted for your visit." She did not ask him to sit down and she remained standing herself. "I have come, madame," said Septi mus, much impressed by her dignity, "to demand Miss St. Claire Rosa linda St Claire-of your hands." He had prepared this little speech and a great deal more, but the rest of it bad quite gone out of his head. "I beg your pardon. I must ask you "Miss St Claire, madam," repeated SeDtimus. raising his voice and endeav drown the shrill bark of the terrier. "My Rosalinda, where la she? How is she?" "There must be some mistake, I think," said the lady. "The people from whom I took the house are called Jones. Did you come on business to see my nephew?" "The sama," replied Septimus, little knowing that he had given the wrong card, with the address ot his firm printed in the right-hand corner. "Mr. Thomas Gawkroger has written to me, and I am here to inquire after the health of Miss St Claire." The lady shook her head, her man ner became more severe, "My nephew is from home at the moment I must ask you to wait in the hall till his return. She approached the bell, but Septimus pushed forward, "Your nephewl" he exclaimed: 'my letter is from Mr. Thomas Gawkroger." -l nen there la decidedly some mis take. I must wish you good morning." "Madame," said Septimns, with great solemnity, regardless of the fact that the terrier was worrying the heels of his boots on the chance of their being rats or did be smell the Dutch cheeier "do not put me effl I am not to be deceived. I am aware" (he was begin ning to get nervous) "that you have a a companion a beautiful young lady concealed " "I have no such thing," interrupted Miss Dynoch, with some temper, "and never bad in my life. Do you mean to insult me?" "No companion!" gasped Septimus. "Does not Miss St. Claire live here? Your nephew wrote and told me tbat she was dangerously ill. I've come all the way from London to see her. I have corresponded with her regularly for mouths." "Then you ought to be ashamed of yourself!" said Miss Dynoch, and the rosebuds rattled in her cap. "My Intentions, madam, are honor able. Your nephew, Mr. Thomas Gawkroger" "My nephew's name 19 Mr. Edmund Fenwick. Leave the room instantly) You have come here under false pre tences. Quit my house lmmediatelyl" "But Rosalinda, where shall I find her?" asked Septimus, looking wildly around as if he thought it probable that his fair lady-love might be concealed behind the yellow silk curtains. Mis Dynoch became perfectly rigid with suppressed rage. She pulled the bell violently. At the same instant the door was thrown open. "Susan!" cried Miss Dynoch, "show this person out." Septimus turned to make one last ap peal, and almost fell into the arms of a good-tempered young man, with a brown beard and twinkling eyes. "Hello, my good fellow, take care!" be sail to Septimns. "Why, what's the matter? I hope you are not ill. Aunt Zoe?" "No, Edmund, my health is pre served to me. But I beg that you will dismiss this person from the house. He is a dangerous character; be has used the most disrespectful language 1" "I assure you madam, "w began poor Septimus, who wished himself safe at home in Brickbury, "I mean no dis respect" "What's your business here?" asked the new comer. "You see that you ate annoying the lady." "1 received a letter on Monday," explainel Septimus, taking an envelope from his pocket "I was prepared for ill news, but not not for such treat ment as this. Consider my position in the word, Mr. Thomas Gawkroger!" "Oh, ah yesl" broke in the man with the beard. "Mr. Thomas Gaw kroger, to be sure, he wrote to you, did he?" "He did. And If you can tell me where be has bidden away this lovely girl-" "Edmund!" cried Aunt Zoe, with upraised hands, "what is the meaning of all thl3? Do you or do you not know to whom this person refers? Do you or do yon not know who Mr. Thomas Gawkroger may be?" -' "Well, Aunt Zoe," replied the newphew, gently stroking his beard, '-I have heard of such a man." "Then I am sorry for the company you keep!" "The fact is," he said, turning to the discomfited Septimus, "my aunt, Miss Dynoch" "Do not drag my name int j the dis cussion, I beg." "No, by no means, dear aunt. The fact is, your name's Potter Mr. Septi mus Potter, of course?"' Septimus bowed. "Of 4 Prospect place, Brickbury?" Septimus bowed agaiu. "Then, my dear Mr. Potter, you and I have a few words to say to each other on business. Come and have a glass of sherry. These matters are best ar ranged without troubling the ladies. Aunt Zoe, if you will excuse me, I'll take Mr. Potter into the dining-room at once." Sit down, do, Mr. Totter," said his nipMintlr. "Mv name, as bur...uu, i j - - you already know, is Fenwick. I am sorry that you nave mvi wis long jour ney for nothing." "For nothing," shouted Septimu', waxing bold under this civil treatment "Where" "Yes, I know what you are going to ask, and upon my word I'm ashamed to answer your question; but if you insist upon It yon shall have a full explana tion. Though," here he smiled and his eyes twinkled, "though I hardly expect you to believe me." "Who is Mr. Thomas" "Gawkroger? You are as bad as my .,.r.t Mi Dvnoch. Well. I don't ex actly know. I never imagined anyone would be so ioousn as to oeueve m sucu tro ai. where is Rosalinda? No where. Why? Because she doesnt exist, and never did, out or my Drain. Septimus put his hands to bis head. "Who who is Rosalinda?" he gasped. r Fonwlrlr succeeded with some difficulty in suppressing a violent cough that threatened to oecome unmanage able. "If you Insist upon it, Mr. Potter, to put the case clearlv, "I don't believe there no sich a person!' " 'Sir," stammered Septimus, who was totally unacquainted with the works of the great writer from whom Mr. Fenwick Quoted, "I fail to com prehend your meaning. I don t know what you re urivms the young lady, is " "Now, my dear Mr. Potter," said Edmund Fenwick, cordially, still with .:. i ,iw-a.iiiof tt his face, "vouhave been badly treated, I know, and I .pologizs most sincerely. o:ia.e uauua and come and have some luncheon. , ra!iir want it after vour journey; and upon my word, I shall re quire support before I encounter my aunt again. I answered your adver tisement I wrote the letter. I seat yon a photograph that 1 bouut at a shop. It was scandalous, but I did. Rosalinda, to mention the lady for the last time, I do assure you, that Rosa linda is a myth pure and simple. And Emily forgave him when he told her the whole story. She and Sepr'mus were married the following Christmas, and they have a charming house in Brickbury. Septimus still wears a vel vet coat in the evenings, but lv has dropped his airs and graces, and if. the most devoted husband in the world, while his sweet-tempered wife ts him with the profoundest respect, and never has so much as referred to Uosa liuda since their wedding day. Ufa at a German Bath. Life at a German bath begin early at 6 a. m. or 7 a. m. at latest, tht -iua- jority of health seekers walk dowi to me iiomiiurg wens loiata weir if re scribed quantity of water. The tcene then in this charming valley is Interest ing and lively. The long alley leading from the Kaiser to the Elizabeth sf ring Is thronged with people of ever age and nationality, all slowly parading up and down, listening to the mass of an excellent band near the pn:ipal well, thus shortening the intervals ne cessary between the single dosr of water. At 9 o'clock theenviiuts of the springs are nearly empty; every one has hurried home for breakfast -After a pause of pleasant rest the remaTider ot the forenoon is generally employed in the use ot the baths, which are crowded, often overcrowded, in ..'act, from 11 to 1, at which time lunch again empties the streets and calls visiters to the different hotels and restau.-.nts. The afternoon is employed in d'ffer ent ways. English visitors flock in large numbers to the lawn tennis grounds, one of the finest in Germ in y, splendidly situated In the middle oi the park, and carefully kept in order by the administration. Others prefer ex cursions to the mountains, where there is much to interest and amuse, and no oue will omit a visit to the ruins of the Saalburg, an ancient Roman "castel lum." Between 4 and 5 o'clock the neighborhood of the springs again grows lively; many pitients now taka their afternoon dose of water, and now, Just as the Elizabeth well was the most frequented in the early morning, the greater number of vis itors are gathered around the Lud wigsbrunnen, or the iron waters, the Luisen and Stahlbrunnen. After dinner, which takes place gen erally at 0 or C.30, the kursaal forus the center of attraction. It is a splradid building, the survival of days when the demon of play held high' revels In its gilded chambers, all of which are spacious, the dining room especially, which is remarkable not ohly by its sizs, but for the artistic and tasteful decoration. Music enlivens the scene; there are constant performances , by military bands in the kursaal gardens, or, if the weather Is nnpropltions,. in the concert rooms. Balls and dances are of frequent occurrence, an'ype.. (xjuiiiiiuy gives oevuu yc.iuiu -uj . the theatre, and all but the complain ing chronic invalid may be as joyous a) they please. Only the hours are early; at 11 or soon Vterward, certainly be fore midnight, all Uomburg has ietired to rest Mineral 1ValT Hal lis. As far as I know, a new usa has been discovered for seltzer water. It Is to bathe in. The real luxurious tip for a morning bath is, my friend Saobson assures me, a carbonic bath. It is so delightfully bracing and stimulating, "don't chew know." It ought to be. But thore is nothing so very wonderful in the use of mineral water baths. Al most all, the German mineral waters now so popular were originally utilized for bathing. Epsom and Glauber salt bath?, too, are prescribed in Europe, in the belief that they have a purgative effect taken externally as well as inter nally. Carlsbad was originally a bath. It was only when science took the mat ter in band that its waters were adap ted to table uses. The same is true of Vichy, Kissingen, and I don't remem ber how many others. Even now, vis itors at the springs bathe in as well as drink of them. A much more curious and common bath than mineral water, now popular here, is of goat's milk. I don't Know what virtue it lias or is supposed to have, but it is coming into extensive vogue as an accessory of metropolitan luxury. The histories tell us how the sirens of an cient Rome laved their white forms in ass' milk, and fought age off till they were great-grandmothers by this charm. Do our own Messalinas find the process useful, I wonder? The tribe of don keys has been unusually increased among us of late, I notice. Ordinary milk bath are also not unknown, the physicians assure me, and starch baths and bran baths are said to have a favorable effect upon the skin. These latter are prescribed for certain skin diseases, but are of use even when the skin Is sound. Wise men and women who can not go to bathe in the sea throw a handful or two of rock salt In the household bath and enjoy a first class Imitation of the original quite as good, indeed, as the so-called sea salts procure. If any one wants to com pound a close approach to Coney island for domestic use, a scientific iriend of mine prescribes a cupful of common salt mixed with a dose of Epsom salt and a table-spoonful of sulphate of lime to half a bath-tub of water. These are the principal ingredients of sea water, and those chiefly active in rendering its effects ealntary. Equal to the Kmcrgency. I was going along the road away out the other day at a place where an or chard adjoins a grove, and I happened to see a policeman peering warily into the trees. "What Is it?" said I. "Look in there behind that wall," said he. , , I did, and there was a boy, about 13 years old, barefooted, with a tuft of hair sticking out through a hole in his hat, pegging stones into a pear tree and knocking down pears. The policeman worked his way in through the trees and jumped on the boy before he saw either one of ns. "Aha!" said the policeman; "I've caught you at it!" "Caught me at wnair" saia we uoy. "Stealing pears." atnjl Kremlin' nears!" said the boy, in great astonishment "I haint been steaiin' no pearsr- TToint Then what are VOU doing with these here in your pockets?" The boy's trousers' pocKeis were stuffed out on both sides with pears. Oh. these," saia ne; -wny, i iouna m lavin 'ron nd here on the mound. and I was firin' 'em back on the tree where ttey belong!" A MOXKKT ACTS AS WAICHMAV. Am African Kailroad's Apa Kama a . Salary for bis Crippled Master. Two years ago when I was in South Africa for a New York firm of exporters I was informed that eight miles up the railroad, which runs from Capetown north, there was a trained ape which acted as a switch man and drew a regular salary for his master. Of course I believed the story to be a canard, but felt that it was worth while investigating, I stopped at a little station on the railroad in Caps Colony and was directed to a small witch house, 2)0 yards np the track from the place where the train had stopped. The switch tender was sit ting outside the door in an arm chair .and by hla side stood, or rather crouched, an enormous African ape, which was fully five feet high when erect ' As the switch tender arose to answer my inquiry I noticed that he was arm less. I asked him whether it was true that his ape performed tie duties of switchman and was told to watch for Ave minutes and see for myself. A few minutes later the rumbling noise of an approaching train was heard. A3 the noise increased the ape Jumped from hla crouching position and accom panied the switchman to the place where the white arm of the switch stood thrown to the left At a signal from the switchman the ape jumped forward, seized the key, unlocked the padlock, which held the switch in position, and grasping the lever with his muscular arm threw it to the right The train dashed over the switch to the side track of the sta tion, and in a second the switch was thrown back Into position, and the ae again took his seat by his master to wait for further orders. It was certainly a wonderful per formance, and I would riot believe it unless I had seen it The man in formed me tbat he had lost his arms ia a railroad accident while employed by the company as a switch tender. Dur ing the five years previous to the acci dent he had trained the ape more as a matter of recreation and to employ his leisure time while stationed at tbat lonely outpost of the Capetown rail way. The work of amusement turned him In good stead when be was able to sat isfy the company that without arms he could as fully protect its Interests as when he was in possession of those limbs. For more than two years the ape bad performed the duties of switch man, and had never mads a mistake. Old Dobbin's Feast. It was a patient, care-worn horse, whose geueral air suggested disgust with men and things, that stood hitched to a substantial-looking phae ton on Wabash avenue. In a few moments his somnolent reflections were pleasantly disturbed by a band rul of reet rrass hlJ to his mouth. Three little girls, the youngest a little toddler of five and the eldest proba bly not more than eight, came romp ing along. They spied the steady looking old horse, determined to give him a treat, and all three were soon busy digging their tiny hands into the sod and thrusting the long fresh grass into his nose and mouth. At first the smallest feared to pu' her hands so near his mouth, and would pass the grass to one of she others and then stand back and de lightedly watch the proceeding. Un accustomed to such marKed attention, and as though entering into the spirit of the thing, the old horse grew rest less and nervous, now and then paw ing and backing and going forward to the end of the hitchlng-strap. Fin ally the little lady of five years plucked a handful of grass and marched boldly up herself to be the giver. The horse had gone forward a little, and as she reached toward him from the curb the little woman in her eager nervousness lost her balance and fell, a heap of tiny, dainty skirts, almost under the old horse's feet A second more his hard, p.twiug feet would have killed the little creature. But the old horse never pawed after the little lady fell. Pausing a moment the horse seemed to carefully consider the matter, and when the little girl's companions had run screaming for help he carefully stepped backward with every foot lifted clear of the child, and stopped at the length of his hitching strap, the body of the little one just in front of him. She had not yet uttered a sound, but now she she looked up, saw the horse's heal above her, and, slowly rising, she put out her hand, and giving him a gentle pat on his ve -vety nose, ran off after li.f companions. Origin of Slant ins Hoofs. To find the source from which tho European nations have derived the art of building in stone we must look to the land of the Pharaohs. From Egypt the craft passed to Greece, and from the Greeks it was taken up by the Romans, to be by them disseminated through the north aud west of Europe in the process of colonization. The similarity. In regard to the construc tive parts of the ancient Greek build ings to some of those found in Egypt of older date affords strong confirma tion of the tradition that the Greeks borrowed the art from the Egyptians. The Greeks, however, in adopting it added a new feature, the pediment, aud the reason for this addition is easy to find. Egypt is practica.ly rainless. All the protection from the climate re quired in a palace or temple iu such a country is shelter from the sua by day and from the cold by night, and for this a flat roof supported by walls or pillars with architraves is quite suf ficient but when, as in all European countries, rain has to be taken into ac count, a slanting roof becomes a neces sity. The Greeks, with thtir eye for symmetry, provided for this by forming the roof with a central ridge at an ob tuse angle, rrom which it aloped down equally on either side. The triangular space thus formed at the end of the building above the architrave wai oc cupied by the pediment, and this part of the facade, which owed its birth to the exigencies of climate, was hence forth regarded as so essential to the artistic completeness of the work that it was said that if a temple were to be erected m the celestial regions, where ram would not bo p.ssible, the pedi ment could not be omitted. It is stated tbat New York dairmen are favorfblefto the substitution of sheep for cows, believing that in producing choice mutton and lamb they will de rive largo: profits than from. milk. LONG-LIVED WHIMS. Carious Directions Contained in th Wills of Various People. An old woman who died lately in a village In Western Pennsylvania was so attached to her home and its be longings that she bequeathed it to her daughter so long as not an article of furniture was removed from the place it had occupied daring her life. Any change made in the house or furniture would forfeit the legacy. Not a year bad elapsed after her death when by an explosion the house and all in it were shattered to fragments. Ia no way do the ruling pasflons of men show themselves so strongly as by their wills. A curious collection re cently made of these last testaments exhibits the extremest forms of vanity, benevolence, malignancy and humor. John Reed, a gas lighter in a Phila delphia theatre for nearly fifty years, bequeathed his sknll to the property room, to ba used only as "poor Yor Ick'a" In the grave yard scene in Ham let . Harriet Martinean left her skull and brain to a surgeon, for the purpose or scientific investigation. Cartouche gave his skull to a Gene vese monastery; and Jeremy Bentbam his body to a friend, who articulated the skeleton and dressed it in Bentham's own clothes. A wealthy English nobleman, dying about a century ago, left five guineas for the purchase of a picture of a viper stinging the hand of his benefactor, to be given to an ungrateful friend in lieu of the large lecacy left him by a former will, now revoked. Every kind of whim and freak have been expressed by wills. Sieur Benoit desird that he might be buried in an old leather trunk which had gone around the world with him three times. A wealthy Kentucky iron-master, who died a few years ago, ordered that his body should be kert unburied by his family, and as soon as it was put under ground that they should forfeit their Inheritance. A shrewd merchant in Bremen left Urge legacies to six friends with the condition that none of them should fol low him to the grave or show any sign of respect or grief on pain of forfeiture. Five obeyed the conditions, the sixth rode as chief mourner and threw flowers upon his coffin. A codicil was discovered by which the loyal friend who should disregard the will should received treble the amount given to the others. There Is something pathetic in even malignant at'etcpts to make a man's whims live after he is dust It is the last puerile effort of weak human na ture to defy death. A Roy in Court. It is not always safe to trust inno cence to carry on a successful war against craft, or to expect a chili to outwit a skil ful lawyer wjo tries to break him down by cross-examination. But sometimes it hapins that the weaker is the stronger. It was so in the case of a little boy In the following incident, whlcn is siiid to have hap Ined In Chicago, lie did not know that his word wa3 doubted, and he an swered truthfu'.ly, without i-inb.li rass ment. The incident occurred in Judge liarn u ia's court room during the hear ing of an ejectment case. A little boy of S years was presented by one side as a vitue, and the op posing counsel oljectel to him on the probability tbat the clsild was unaware of the nature of an oath. "Do you know what an oatk is, Charlie?" asked the court "Yes, Mr," answered Ciiarlle. It is to ask Gol to be'p you to tell the truth." "Where did you learn all this?'' frowned the opiKWing counsel. "In the catechism," said CtiarlK not to be frowned dowu by the biggest lawyer In the business. "In the catechism?" "What catechism?" "Iu the 10 cent catechism, sir." "Who told you to look in the catechism for the definition of an oath?" "My sis ter. She told me last night und I got it and studied it." "Have you got your catechism with you?" "Ves, sir. Here it is," and the well-thumbed little pamphlet was forthwith produced from the depths of that mysterious recep table for all known odds and ends, the trousers pocket "You see the boy has his docu ments," Interposed the court with a smile, and a quiet titter went around the court room as it became evident that the legal luminary was being puz zled by the child. "II "ml Let me see the book. I wondered if yoa know anything more that's in it. Who nude you?" "Why, God, of course," was the reply, as if the lad pooh-poohed the idea ot being asked such a simple ques tn, and wanted "something hard." Several questions were asked, and elicited ready replies. The lawyer, though loth to acknowledge it, ac cepted defeat as gracefully as possible. Turning to the court, he said: "Your honor, I guess we will accept this wit ness, aud for this little book, 1 would submit it to my learned friend, the counsel for the other side, and recom mend its careful perusal by him. It will do him good." An Kartliquake Lexicon. For the assistance of the reporters, we offer the following list of appropri ate words as a contribution t J the re lief fund: Seismology The science of earth quakes. Seismography The science of re porting, registering or describing earth quakes. beismometry ine measurement ot earthquakes. Seismometry rertaining to the ob servation or mensuration of earth quakes. Seismogony lne generation or oirm of earthquakes. Seismomancy The prophesying or foretelling of, or by means of, earth quakes. Seismophobist une wno iears eann- quakes. Seismopnue une wno is aaaicieu to the collection of or loves earthquakes. SeismoDhagous. Habitually eating or living by the consumption of earth quakes. This list might easily be prolonged; but it will suffice for ordinary reperto rial uses, and the enterprising corres pondent will find that combined with such epithets as abysmal, cataclysmic, chaotic and the like, any one of the above will lend a very effective coloring to the most commonplace write-up. Vertical stripes In dress goods of all kinds are Che feature in fall fabrics. THICKS OP THE FAKIRS. The Cane Racket, the Shell Game, and the Vanishing Tea. "Try your hand, sir; purely a game of science and skill," said the young man, running what is known in fakit slang as "the cane racket" A hundred and fifty canes, more or less, were in a rack, and for a monetary consideration the customer is furnished a certain number of rings to throw at them. If he "rings" a eane he gets it. The lookers-on intimated that "the cane racket'" was a mild form of gamb ling; that the "ringing" of a cane was a matter of chance, and that skill did not enter in the game at all. "I'll show you as to that," said the young man, and selecting a particular eane he very deftly put three out of live rings he threw over the cane. It had a crooked handle at that. "I ran do better than tliat,"' said the operator, "but you see it isn't gambling at all. Every now and then we have a custo mer who can come ringer nearly every throw. We don't care for that, because it induces others to throw who cau't make a 'ringer' once in fifty times. The best throwers are quoit pitchers. Baseball men are nut mure exiei't than the oidinary ruu of throwers. "We've not made any money this season. e have len going to picni-s and old settlers' lneetinc, but can't catch on. It niav be better when the countrv fairs come on. The old settler. when he pays his nickel, pitches seven rings and doesn't get a cane feels that he has leen swindled, and cholera morbuscouidn't make him groan 'jre. The shell racket is catching on better this summer than anything else. I sometimes think I would like to tike the shells ami give it to 'em raw." The shells are three half shells of the English walnut, and the old game of thimble rig or "Now-yoii-see-it-and- now-you-don't" is played with them. The little black pea or "joker was for merly made of blackened cork. It is now made of composition. 'Indianapolis," continued the caue man, "has some of the trickiest boys on the road. 'Windy Frank' is one of the best shell men to be found any- w here, but 'Sheeny Jue is still better. Joe can make S3,0u0 a season. Of course the shell man has to have alxmt three lit-ople. with him, cappers, to help run the game and encourage the suck ers to put up money. The other day an old settler squealed because his 5 cents hadn't brought him a cane. A few minutes Liter l see him watching the sheil man who had his board up next to me. The lit tle joker was plainly in sight, peeping out from under the edge of one of the shells. 'Any gentleman want to bet a dollar he can pick out the shell that lias the joktr under it?"' inquired the shell man. "The old settler saw the pea as plain as winking. It was a soft snap, and he could take it In. 'I'll bet $-,' savs lie. " 'I'll go you ten you can't,' says old Shell, and then appealed to the boys, if they knew, not to ie!L " -I'll go you twenty,' says the old sett er. " '1' 1 tin fortv ' savs my friend, who saw the roll of bills iu his hand and sized 'em ui. It seems there were 5W in the pile, and the venerable sucker put it all on a sure thing. The shell v;is lifted. 1 he little joKer wasn l thiic. "lie w;is the most surprised nuui you ever saw. As lie lookeil up, I cauglil his eve and remarked, 'You'll squeal on live cents iigain, will you? Now you've got u dose that'll do you some gHl. Go home and tell the story to jour grandchildren.' " It is I'n I id kr. To be struck by lightning on Mon- dav. To sit on a buzz-saw in motion on Friday. To break the mirror your wife's mother gave her. To fall down-stairs with the larlor stove on Tuesday. To speculate with other people's money and get caught. To get wet when you fall overboard while loating on Thursday. To dream of snakes after drinking cider in a prohibition town. To see a bill-collector over your r ght shoulder on Saturday. To see a bull-dog over your left shoulder in your neighbor's orchard. To see your overcoat over either shoulder as you pass out of the shop of your uncle. To bet all your money on a horse whose driver has bet his money on another. To marry on Wednesday a girl who practices with ten-pound dumMR-l's. To spill salt in the coffee of the man who has the carving-knife. To le one of thirteen at Uible when there is only food enough for six. To meet a detective at the depot when you are buying a ticket to Can ada. A Illcak Home. On the map ot Iceland may be seen a sjieck of an island called Grirnsey. It is the most northern, and conse quently the coldest, of the Iceland group. Eighty-eight lieople no more live on it. They have tried to keep a few cows, but the winters are too hard for them. Two horses and a few sheep with very coarse fleeces are the only animals of the kind on the island. A good minister, Peter Good n lai ism i, lives in this remote place. He is a poet and an astronomer, and is em ployed to take observations for the Meteorological Institute at Copenha gen. Once or twice a year some of the islanders visit the mainland, but the stormy seas, covered with icebergs, make the passage always dangerous. On one side of the Island, which is a high precipice, countless birds build their nests, and the collecting of e'gs is one chief means of living for the lit tle settlement Men are let down over the face of the rock by roes. They wear suits thickly wadded with feath ers to save themselves from being hurt on the sharp rocks. Each man carries a iole to help himself with and a ladle for scooping up nests that he cannot reach with his hands. There is in his frock a great pocket in whieh he can put one hundred and fifty egg There he works with the sea roaring beneath him. Many accidents occur and many lives are lost iu this business. Some of the new plush broche bor dered woolen stuffs are as rich and dressy as well as costly as silk velvet broche. One-piece dresses of wool and silk are both worn and preferred by many ladies of unquerioned taste and fasa-ion. NEWS IX BRIEF. Chicago has had 500 burglaries in three months. There are 725,000 more females than males in England. We imported $10,000,000 worth of precious stones during 1SS4. Nine pupils in the public schools of Allegan, Mich., are married women. To prevent flat-irons from scorching, wipe them on a cloth wet with keros ene. The New Jersey cranberry crop is abundant, while that ot Wisconsin is a failure. Ten thousand public schools receive financial support from the government of Mexico. Over $13,000,000 has been expen ded on monuments in Massachusetts since In 1S01. A Dakota man succeeded in get ting forty-four mortgages on his prop erty and then left town. About 2-..000 cattle will be driven into the Canadian northwest from the United States th's season. Arizona now contains about COO.- 000 cattle and horses. Cattle are listed for taxation at $15.00 per head. Sheep are only worth 13 cents per head hi Fayette county. Alabama, and hogs are a drug at 10 cents per head. Last year 100,000 barrels of oysters were shipped from this country, and it is expected tbat this season's trade will be even larger. The world now uses 40,000 barrels of coal oil daily, and America has enough on hand to keep up the supply lor three years. New Florida orange3 are already coming to market They are a little premature as to ripeness. The crop will be unusually forward this season. A judge of Cleveland, O., has de cided that the chestnut gong is a nui sance. He fined three young men S3 and costs for ringing the bell on the streets. The longest drought that ever oc curred in this country is said to have taken place in lTi2, when no rain fell from the first of May to the 1st of Sep tember. The consumption of oysters has much increased in Paris. Butter has decreased in demand, since it has to a great extent been replaced by tats and margarines. The public schools of this country now employ over 300,000 teachers and pay them $02,000,000, a not very flat tering annual average of a little mora than (200 each. The western window-glass facto ries expect to resume operations the first of October, the workmen having decided to withdraw their demands fo an increase of wages. Chicago is to have a public hall capable of seating from 5W) to S00O people. The building which will be nine stories high, will also contain a hotel with 50u rooms. The tallest chimney in the world has recently been completed. It is 440 feet high, six more than the famous chimney of St Kollox chemical works, near Glasgow, Scotland. Pr. Cohn, one of the professors at the University of Heidelberg, has re ceived an invitation from the govern ment of Japan to accept a chair in the Faculty of Laws at Tokio. It is estimated that the wheat crop of California will be worth $54, 000,000 this year, as against $2S,0U0,0UO last, year, and the barley crop will fetch $10,0u0,U00, a gain of 7,0O0,0UO over last year. The new tea route from China and Japan to Europe via. the Pacific Ocean and the Canadian Pacific railroad has begun to do a good business. The sixth tea ship is now on Us way across the Pacific. The Vatican library contains 24. 000 manuscripts, of which 2 1G4 are Oriental, 3,052 Greek aud 17,04'J Latin. A complete catalogue is now, for the first time, being prepared and is to te published. A foreign lady who lost i.12,000 at the Monte Carlo gaming tables has com mitted suicide. This makes the seventy-sixth case of suicide owing to losses at Monte Carlo since the beginning of the season. At Merced, Cal., a harvester driv ing wheel struck a boulder, producing sparks which set fire to the standing grain, and 210 acres of wheat, 550 acres of grass and 150 acres of stubbie were burue-J. Prof. Pickering of the Boston In stitute of Technology, with seveial skilled photographers, went to Grenada one of the West India Islands, to ob serve the sun eclipse of August 20. The wife of a prominent merchant at itee Heights, Dakota, after a cross examination by attorneys as witness in a suit, became hopelessly insane, and has been taken to the asylum, tier husband thinks of t ringing suit against the lawyers Tor damages. According to a contemporary, the latest ingenious Persian ruethxi of squeezing" an obstinate rich man Is to shave the victim's head bare, and cover it with a cap filled with tiny crabs and spiders. Half an hour's tor ture Inevitably brings the most obsti nate to reason. A Pittsburg real estate agent in fers from the volume ot business in his line that that city is growing in popu lation very rapidly, He expects the next census to give Pittsburg 300,000 populatian, and Allegheny and other cities and towns that virtually forma part of the same community will bring it up to half a million, A convict in the jail at Athens, Ga., stripped the iron hoope3 from his cell tub, made them into saw blades, sawed through an iron bar an inch square, making a hole in the window fourteen inches square; soaped his naked body and thus slipped through it, and was then detected by the sheriff. He said that he had to get out ot his lark cell. The Scientific American is respon sible for the statement that the horse population of New York city is between 60.000 and 75,000, and that of London 200,000, of which 30,000 are used in public carriages, an equal number in omnibuses, and 10,000 in street cars. The tanning of sturgeon skins Li carried on to a considerable extent on the east shore of Lake Winnebago, Wis. The skins waen tanned ate very soft, and are said by those having worn boots made of them to be more durable than ordinary leather. J TUJSS1':,'!tr et1tp HI, .1.1.1.1 4k -j r -
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